Categories: OLD Media Moves

Learmonth joining Vice News as news director

Michael Learmonth, who was laid off by the International Business Times last month, has been hired by Vice News as its news director.

He starts next week.

Learmonth had joined the International Business Times in June 2014 as its global technology editor and then took over media and culture coverage in October of that year.

Before joining the online website, Learmonth covered the intersection of technology, entertainment and marketing for Advertising Age, Business Insider, Variety and Reuters.

He also covered the first internet bubble in Silicon Valley at Metro Newspaper in San Jose, then chronicled its bursting at the late great magazine The Industry Standard.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.